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This comprehensive collection of 205 scores illustrates every significant trend and genre of Western music from antiquity to modern times. Highlights of the repertoire include new works from all periods: more contrasting virelais, ballades, and other chansons from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries; large-scale choral works, including Gabrieli's In ecclesiis, Lully's Te Deum, Haydn's Creation, and Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky; more opera, including Norma, Les Huguenots, and Madama Butterfly; orchestral and chamber works by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorák, and Tchaikovsky; and new twentieth-century works by Satie, Bartók, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Varèse, Hindemith, Cowell, Cage, Feldman, Stockhausen, Boulez, Berio, Reich, Adams, Ligeti, Schnittke, and Michael Daugherty

Vocal and instrumental music

Companion volumes to: A history of western music, 8th edition and Concise history of western music, 4th edition

Recordings of musical works included on: Norton recorded anthology of western music. United States : Naxos ; New York : W.W. Norton, 2010. 14 sound discs

Includes indexes

v. 1. Ancient to Baroque -- v. 2. Classic to Romantic -- v. 3. Twentieth century

v. 1. The ancient and medieval worlds: Music in antiquity. Epitaph of Seikilos : song (epigram) ; Euripides : Orestes, Greek tragedy. Excerpt : Stasimon chorus -- Roman liturgy and chant. Mass for Christmas Day : Gregorian chant mass ; Chants from Vespers for Christmas Day. First antiphon : Tecum principum, with psalm Dixit Dominus. Hymn : Christe Redemptor omnium ; Victimae paschali laudes : sequence / attributed to Wipo of Burgundy ; Tropes on Puer natus : Quem queritas in presepe and melisma ; Orod virtutum : sacred music drama. Chorus : In principio omnes -- Song and dance music in the Middle Ages. Can vei la lauzeta mover : canso (troubadour song) / Bernart de Ventadorn ; A chantar : canso (troubadour song) / Comtessa de Dia ; Jeu de Robin et de Marion. Rondeau : Robins m'aime / Adam de la Halle ; Palästinalied : Nū alrēst lebe ich mir werde : Minnelied / Walther von der Vogelweide ; Cantiga 159 : Non sofre Santa María : from Cantigas de Santa Maria ; La quarte estampie royal : from Le manuscrit du roi -- Polyphony through the thirteenth century. Organa from Musica enchiriadis. Tu patris sempternus es filius ; Sit gloria domini ; Rex caeli domine ; Alleluia Justus ut palma : free organum : from Ad organum faciendum ; Jubilemus, exultemus : versus in Aquitanian polyphony ; Viderunt omnes : organum duplum / Leoninus and colleagues ; Clausulae on Dominus : from Viderunt omnes. No. 26 ; No. 29 ; Viderunt omnes : organum quadruplum / Perontinus ; Ave virgo virginum : conductus ; Motets on tenor Dominus. Factum est salutare/Dominus ; Fole acostumance/Dominus ; Super te/Sed fulsit/Dominus ; Super te/Sed fulsit/Primus tenor/Dominus ; De ma dame vient/Dieus, comment porroise/Omnes : motet / Adam de la Halle ; Sumer is icumen in : rota -- French and Italian music in the fourteenth century. In arboris/Tuba sacre fidei/Virgo sum : motet / Philippe de Vitry ; Le messe de Nostre Dame : mass. Kyrie ; Foy porter : virelai ; Rose, liz, printemps verdure : rondeau / Guillaume de Machaut ; En remirant vo douce pourtraiture : ballade / Philippus de Caserta ; Non al suo amante : madrigal / Jacopo da Bologna ; Tosto che l'alba : caccia / Gherardello da Firenze ; Non avrà ma' pietà : ballata / Francesco Landini

v. 1 (ctd.). The renaissance: England and Burgundy in the fifteenth century. Alleluia : a newë work : carol ; Quam pulchra es : motet or cantilena / John Dunstable ; De plus en plus : rondeau / Binchois (Gilles de Bins) ; Resvellies vous : ballade ; Christe, redemptor omnium : hymn in fauxbourdon style ; Se la face ay pale. Ballade ; Cantus-firmus mass. Gloria / Guillaume Du Fay -- Franco-Flemish composers. Je ne puis vivre : virelai / Antoine Busnoys ; Missa prolationum : mass. Kyrie / Jean de Ockeghem ; Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen : Lied / Henricus Isaac ; Ave Maria ... virgo serena : motet ; Missa Pange lingua : paraphrase mass. Excerpts. Kyrie ; Credo, excerpt. Et incarnatus est and Crucifixus / Josquin des Prez ; Mille regretz : chanson / Josquin de Prez -- Sacred music in the era of the Reformation. Nun komm der heiden and Ein feste Burg : chorales. Veni redemptor gentium : hymn (attributed to St. Ambrose) ; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Martin Luther) ; Ein feste Burg (Martin Luther) ; Ein feste Burg : setting for four voices (Johann Walther) / Martin Luther ; Psalm 134 : Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur : metrical psalm. Psalm 134 : Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur ; Psalm 100 : All people that on earth do dwell (William Kethe) / Loys Bourgeois ; Sing joyfully unto God : full anthem / William Byrd ; Pope Marcellus mass. Credo ; Agnus Dei I / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; O magnum mysterium. Motet ; Imitation mass. Kyrie / Tomás Luis de Victoria ; Cum essem parvulus : motet / Orlande de Lassus -- Madgrial and secular song in the sixteenth century. Oy comamos y bebamos : villancico / Jean del Encina ; Io non compro più speranza : frottola / Marco Cara ; Il bianco e dolce cigno : madrigal / Jacques Arcadelt ; Da le belle contrade d'oriente : madrigal / Cipriano de Rore ; Solo e pensoso : madrigal / Luca Marenzio ; "Io parto" e non più dissi : madrigal / Carlo Gesualdo ; Tant que vivray : chanson / Claudin de Sermisy ; La nuict froide et sombre / Orlande de Lassus ; Revecy venir du printans : chanson / Claude Le Jeune ; My bonny lass she smileth : ballett / Thomas Morley ; As Vesta was : madrigal / Thomas Weelkes ; Flow my tears : air or lute song / John Dowland -- The rise of instrumental music. Dances from Danserye. No. 5, Basse danse : La morisque ; No. 38, Pavane : La dona ; No. 50. Galliard : La dona / Tielman Susato ; Los seys libros del Delphin : intabulation and variations for vilhuela. Cancion Milles regres : intabulation of Josquin's Mille regretz ; Cuatro diferencias sobre "Guárdame las vacas" : variations / Luis de Narváez ; Pavana lachrymae : pavane variations / William Byrd ; Canzon septimi toni a 8 : from Sacrae symphoniae : ensemble canzona / Giovanni Gabrieli

v. 1 (ctd.). The seventeenth century: New styles in the seventeeth century. Cruda Amarilli : madrigal / Claudio Monteverdi ; Vedrò 'l mio sol : solo madrigal / Giulio Caccini -- The invention of opera. Le musiche sopra l'Euridice : excerpts. Aria : Nel pur ardor ; Dialogue in recitative : Per quel vago boschetto / Jacopo Peri ; L'orfeo : excerpt from Act II. Aria/canzonetta : Vi ricorda o boschi ombrosi ; Song : Mira, deh mira Orfeo ; Dialogue in recitative : Ahi, caso ascerbo ; Recitative : Tu se' morta ; Choral madrigal : Ahi, caso ascerbo / Claudio Monteverdi ; L'incoronazione di Poppea. Act 1, scene 3 / Claudio Monteverdi ; Orontea : excerpt from Act 2. Scene 16, E che si fa? ; Scene 17 : opening aria, Intorno all' idol mio / Antonio Cesti -- Music for chamber and church in the seventeeth century. Lagrime mie : cantata / Barbara Strozzi ; Ma bergere non légere : air de cour / Gabriel Bataille ; In ecclesiis : sacred concerto (motet) / Giovanni Gabrieli ; O quam tu pulchra es : solo motet (sacred concerto) / Alessandro Grandi ; Historia di Jephte : oratorio : excerpt. Recitative : Plorate colles ; Chorus : Plorate filii Israel / Giacomo Carissimi ; O lieber Herre Gott : SWV 287 : sacred concerto : from Kleine geistliche Konzerte I / Heinrich Schütz ; Saul, was verfolgst du mich : SWV 415, sacred concerto : from Symphoniae sacrae III / Heinrich Schütz ; Toccata no. 3 / Girolamo Frescobaldi ; Ricercare after the Credo : from Mass for the Madonna in Fiori musicali / Girolamo Frescobaldi ; Sonata IV per il violino per sonar con due corde : sonata for violin and continuo / Biagio Marini -- France, England, Spain, and the New World in the seventeenth century. Armide : opera, excerpts. Overture ; Act 2, scene 5 : Enfin il est en ma puissance / Jean-Baptiste Lully ; Te Deum : grand motet : conclusion / Jean-Baptiste Lully ; La Coquette virtuose : courante / Denis Gaultier ; Suite in A minor : keyboard suite : from Pièces de clavecin / Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre ; Dido and Aeneas : opera : conclusion. Recitative : Thy hand, Belinda ; Lament (ground bass aria) : When I am laid in earth ; Chorus : With dropping wings / Henry Purcell ; La púrposa de la rosa : opera, excerpt / Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco ; Los coflades de la estleya : villancico / Juan de Araujo -- Italy and Germany in the late seventeenth century. Clori vezzosa, e bella : cantata : conclusion. Recitative : Vivo penando ; Aria : Sì, sì ben mio / Alessandro Scarlatti ; La Griselda : opera. Excerpt from Act 1, scene 2 / Alessandro Scarlatti ; Trio sonata, op. 3, no. 2 / Arcangelo Corelli ; Praeludium in E major, BuxWV 141 : organ prelude / Dietrich Buxtehude

v. 1 (ctd.). The eighteenth century: The early eighteenth century in Italy and France. Concerto for violin and orchestra in A major, op. 3, no. 6 / Antonio Vivaldi ; Vingt-cinquième ordre : keyboard suite, excerpts. La visionaire ; La muse victorieuse / François Couperin ; Hippolyte et Aricie : opera. Conclusion of Act 4 / Jean-Philippe Rameau -- German composers of the late Baroque. Prelude and fugue in A minor, BWV 543 / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Chorale prelude on Durch Adams Fall : BWV 637 / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Giulio Cesare : opera. Act 2, scenes 1-2. Eseguisti ; V'adoro, pupille / George Frideric Handel ; Saul : oratorio. Act 2, Scene 10. No. 66, Accompanied recitative : The time at length has come ; No. 67, Recitative : Where is the son of Jesse? ; No. 68, Chorus : O fatal consequence of rage

v. 2. The eighteenth century: Opera and vocal music in the early Classic period. La serva padrona : intermezzo, excerpt. Recitative : Ah, quanto mi sta male ; Aria : Son imbrogliato io / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; Cleofide : opera seria. Act 2, scene 9 : Digli ch'ioson fedele / Johann Adolf Hasse ; The beggar's opera : ballad opera. Excerpt from scene 13 : Aria XV : My heart was so free ; Aria XVI : Were I laid on Greenland's coast / John Gay ; Orfeo ed Euridice : opera. Excerpt from Act 2, scene 1 / Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Creation : fuguing tune : from The continental harmony / William Billings -- Instrumental music : sonata, symphony, and concerto at midcentury. Sonata in D major, K. 119 / Domenico Scarlatti ; Sonata in A major, H. 186, Wq. 55/4. Second movement : Poco adagio / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ; Symphony in F major, no. 32. First movement : Allegro assai / Giovanni Battista Sammartini ; Sinfonia a 8 in E-flat major, op. 11, no. 3. First movement : Allegro assai / Johann Stamitz ; Concerto for harpsichord or piano and strings in E-flat major, op. 7, no. 5. First movement : Allegro di molto / Johann Christian Bach -- Classic music in the late eighteenth century. String quartet in E-flat major, op. 33, no. 2 (The joke), Hob. III:38. Fourth movement : Presto / Joseph Haydn ; Symphony no. 92 in G major (Oxford), Hob. I:92 / Joseph Haydn ; The creation : oratorio. No. 2, in the beginning God / Joseph Haydn ; Piano sonata in F major, K. 332 . First movement : allegro ; Piano concerto in A major, K. 488. First movement : Allegro ; Symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter), K. 551 ; Don Giovanni : opera. Act 1, scenes 1-2 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

v. 2 (ctd.). The nineteenth century: Revolution and change. Piano sonata in C minor, op. 13 (Pathétique). First movement ; Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 (Eroica). First movement : Allegro con brio ; String quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 : excerpts. First movement : Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo ; Second movement : Allegro molto vivace / Ludwig van Beethoven -- The Romantic generation : song and piano music. Gretchen am Spinnrade : D. 118 : Lied ; Winterreise : D. 911, song cycle. No. 5, Den Lindenbaum / Franz Schubert ; Dichterliebe : op. 48, song cycle. No. 1, Im wunderschönen Monat Mai / Robert Schumann ; Jeanie with the light brown hair : parlor song / Stephen Foster ; Carnaval : op. 9, character pieces, excerpts. No. 5, Eusebius ; No. 6, Florestan ; No. 7, Coquette / Robert Schumann ; Mazurka in B-flat major, op. 7, no. 1 ; Nocturne in D-flat major, op. 27, no. 2 / Fryderyk Chopin ; Trois études de concert. No. 3, Un sospiro / Franz Liszt ; Souvenir de Porto Rico : marche des Gibaros : op. 31, character piece / Louis Moreau Gottschalk -- Romanticism in classic forms : orchestral, chamber, and choral music. Symphonie fantastique. Fifth movement : Dream of a witches' sabbath / Hector Berlioz ; Violin concerto in E minor, op. 64. Third movement : Allegretto non troppo/Allegro molto vivace / Felix Mendelssohn ; Symphony no. 4 in D minor, op. 120. First movement. Ziemlich langsam/Lebhaft / Robert Schumann ; String quintet in C major, D. 956. First movement : Allegro non troppo / Franz Schubert ; Piano trio in G minor, op. 17. Third movement : Andante / Clara Schumann ; Elijah : op. 70, oratorio. Chorus : And then shall your light break forth / Felix Mendelssohn ; Gartenlieder : op. 3, partsongs. No. 6, Im Wald -- Romantic opera and musical theater to midcentury. Il barbiere di Siviglia : comic opera. Act 1, no. 7. Una voce poco fa / Gioacchino Rossini ; Norma : opera. Excerpt from Act 1, scene 4. Casta diva / Vincezo Bellini ; Les Huguenots : opera. Conclusion of Act 2 / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Der Freischütz : opera. Act 2, finale. Wolf's glen scene / Carl Maria von Weber -- Opera and musical theater in the later nineteenth century. Tristan und Isolde : opera, excerpts. Prelude ; Conclusion of Act 1 / Richard Wagner ; La traviata : opera. Act 3, Scena and duet / Giuseppe Verdi ; Madama Butterfly : opera. Excerpt from Act 1 / Giacomo Puccini ; Carmen : opera. Act 1, no. 10. Seguidilla and duet / Georges Bizet ; Boris Godunov : opera. Coronation scene / Modest Mussorgsky ; The pirates of Penzance : operetta. Act 2,no. 17. When the foeman bars his steel / Arthur Sullivan -- Late romanticism in Germany and Austria. Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98. Fourth movement : Allegro energico e passionato ; Quintet for piano and strings in F minor, op. 34. First movement : Allegro non troppo / Johannes Brahms ; Don Quixote : op. 35, tone poem. Themes and variations 1-2 / Richard Strauss ; Kindertotenlieder : orchestral song cycle. No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' do hell aufgeh'n / Gustav Mahler -- Diverging traditions in the later nineteenth century. Symphony no. 6 in B minor (Pathétique), op. 74. Third movement : Allegro molto vivace / Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky ; Slavonic dances : op. 46. No. 1, Presto / Antonín Dvořák ; Piano quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 67. Third movement : Allegro agitato ; The stars and stripes forever : march / John Philip Sousa

v. 3. The twentieth century: The early twentieth century. Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin ; Nocturnes. No. 1, Nuages : symphonic poem / Claude Debussy ; Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5 / Sergei Rachmaninov ; Vers la flamme : op. 72, tone poem for piano / Alexander Scriabin ; Embryons desséchés. No. 3, de podophthalma : character piece / Erik Satie -- Modernism and the classical tradition. Pierrot lunaire : op. 21, melodrama for speaker and chamber ensemble, excerpts. No. 8, Nacht ; No. 13, Enthauptung ; Piano suite, op. 25, excerpts. Prelude ; Minuet and trio / Arnold Schoenberg ; Wozzeck : op. 7, opera. Act 3, scene 3 / Anton Webern ; The rite of spring : ballet, excerpts. Danse des adolescentes ; Danse sacrale ; Symphony of psalms : choral symphony. First movement / Igor Stravinsky ; Mikrokosmos : no. 123, Staccato and legato : étude ; Music for strings, percussion and celesta : symphonic suite. Third movement : Adagio / Béla Bartók ; General William Booth enters into heaven : song / Charles Ives -- Between the world wars : jazz and popular music. I got rhythm : Broadway show song, from Girl crazy / George Gershwin ; Back water blues / Bessie Smith ; West end blues. Original sheet music ; Transcription of recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five / King Oliver ; Cotton tail : jazz composition / Duke Ellington -- Between the world wars : the classical tradition. La création du monde : op. 81a, ballet. First tableau / Darius Milhaud ; Symphony Mathis der Maler. Second movement : Grablegung / Paul Hindemith ; Alexander Nevsky : op. 78, cantata. Fourth movement : Arise, ye Russian people / Sergey Prokofiev ; Symphony no. 5, op. 47. Second movement : Allegretto / Dmitri Shostakovich ; Sensemayá : symphonic poem / Silvestre Revueltas ; Hyperprism : work for winds, brass, and percussion / Edgard Varèse ; The banshee : piano piece / Henry Cowell ; String quartet 1931. Fourth movement : Allegro possible / Ruth Crawford Seeger ; Appalachian spring : ballet suite. Excerpt with variations on 'Tis a gift to be simple / Aaron Copland ; Afro-American symphony. First movement : Moderato assai / William Grant Still -- Postwar crosscurrents. Anthropology : bebop tune and solo. Lead sheet ; Transcription of Charlie Parker's solo / Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ; Quartet for the end of time. First movement : Liturgie de cristal / Olivier Messiaen ; Peter Grimes : opera. Act 3, scene 2. To hell with all your mercy / Benjamin Britten ; Hermit songs : op. 29, song cycle. No. 8, The monk and his cat / Samuel Barber ; Sonatas and interludes : suite for prepared piano. Sonata V ; Music of changes : chance composition for piano. Book 1 / John Cage ; Projection I : cello piece / Morton Feldman ; Kreuzspiel : chamber work. Part 1 / Karlheinz Stockhausen ; Le marteau sans maître : chamber song cycle. Sixth movement : Bourreaux de solitude / Pierre Boulez ; Sequenza III : solo for female voice / Luciano Berio ; Black angels : thirteen images from the dark land : electric string quartet, excerpts. Image 4, Devil-music ; Image 5, Danse 5 / George Crumb ; Philomel : monodrama for soprano, recorded soprano, and synthesized sound. Section 1 / Milton Babbitt ; Threnody : To the victims of Hiroshima : tone poem for string orchestra / Krzysztof Penderecki ; Music for Prague 1968 : concert band suite. First movement : Introduction and fanfare, Adagio-Allegro / Karel Husa -- Music since 1970. Tehillim : for four solo voices and ensemble. Part 4 / Steve Reich ; Short ride in a fast machine : orchestral fanfare / John Adams -- Étude no. 9, Vertige / György Ligeti ; Symphony no. 1. First movement / Ellen Taafe Zwilich ; Seven magnificat antiphons : excerpts. No. 1, O Weisheit ; No. 6, O König aller Völker ; Rejoice! : sonata for violin and violoncello. Fifth movement : Listen to the still small voice within / Sofia Gubaidulina ; Concerto grosso no. 1. Second movement : toccata / Alfred Schnittke ; Dead Elvis : for solo bassoon and chamber ensemble / Michael Daugherty ; Seven tunes heard in China : for solo cello. No. 1, Seasons / Bright Sheng

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